Hunt Co., TX - Obits: John Hunter
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John Hunter

Last rites were observed at 2:00 PM Saturday at the Lane Methodist Church for
John Hunter, retired farmer, who died early Friday at his home near Celeste.

The Rev. Robert Ridley of Dallas, officiated, assisted by the Church’s pastor,
the Rev. G. W. Gear. Burial was in the lane Cemetery under the direction of
James-Coker-Peters Funeral Home of Greenville.

Pallbearers were grandsons.

John Hunter, a native of Cookeville, Tennessee, was born on November 22, 1868.
The son of Joseph Hunter and Mary Hunter, he came to Texas in 1889. He was
married to Deliah McIntyre on December 21, 1896.

Active in the Lane Methodist Church, of which he had been a member for many
years, Mr. Hunter had served on the board of stewards.

Survivors include his wife; eight children; Edd Hunter of Lubbock; Mrs. Amy
Sprinkle of Trenton; Mrs. Beulah Perkins of Dallas; Mrs. Pauline Lee of Fort
Worth, and Mrs. Cindie McGuire, Dee Hunter, Ira Hunter, and Claude Hunter of
Celeste; two stepchildren, Mrs. Hattie Appleby of Hale Center and Charlie
McIntyre of Oklahoma City; a brother, G. W. Hunter and a sister, Mrs. Amy
Qirby. Two sisters preceded him in death.

Those from out-of-town attending the funeral were: Mrs. Ellis Turner, Mrs.
Ross Jackson, Mrs. Bert Rogers, Mrs. Fletcher Bland, Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Shields, Mrs. Esker Sheppard, Mrs. Edd Sprinkle, Miss Leila Sprinkle and Mr.
and Mrs. H. B. McGuire of Greenville.

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bradley of Trenton; Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Brown, Billy Ray
Brown, Sandy Brown and Mr. and Mrs. W. M, Kirby, Martha Kirby, Betty Kirby,
and Madeline Kirby of Sherman; Mr. and Mrs. Mike Boren, Mr. Charles Yeager of
Blue Ridge.

Edd Hunter, Miss Doris Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. James Brumfield, and John Clinton
of Lubbock.

Mrs. Bob Hunter, Paul Hunter, and Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hunter of Shallowater; C.
W. McIntire (McIntyre) and Edith McIntire and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin McIntire of
Oklahoma City; Harvey Hunter of Colbert, Oklahoma.

Miss Joe Hunter, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Hunter, Jr., Mr. and Mrs., Charles Luna,
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. Tommy
Castle, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Braddy, Jeff Parker, Mrs. Ross Curtis, Mrs. Ivan
Junell, Mrs. Raymond Snyder, John Wright, Rev. T. Herbert Minga, Rev. and Mrs.
G. W. Gear, Mr. and Mrs. Vern Baumbalaugh, and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Perkins, Ray
Perkins, and Terry Perkins of Dallas.

Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Lee, Danny Lee, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Pace, and Miss Nell
Sprinkle of Fort Worth; Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Ashcroft, Dolores Rogers, and Mr.
I. J. Boren of Collinsville.

Mr. and Mrs. Luther Locke of Ardmore, Oklahoma; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Shields of
Howe; Mr. and Mrs. Burl Sprinkle of Bastrop, Louisiana; J. M. Sears and Jonnye
Sears of Hugo, Oklahoma; and Wilford Sprinkle of Texarkana. (March 28, 1952,
The Celeste Courier)